'I'll Take Your Questions Now'
Jan 28, 2024 15:18:18 #
slatten49
Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
by Michael R. Burch
It sounds like Stephanie Grisham was never an enthusiastic Trump defender. After all, she never held a televised press conference in Don the Con’s defense. But Grisham now admits that she was part of Trump’s deceitful White House apparatus: “Casual dishonesty filtered through the White House as though it were in the air conditioning system.”
The former Trump White House press secretary best known for never holding a televised briefing with reporters, has written a tell-all book 'I’ll Take Your Questions Now', in which she accuses Trump of abusing his White House staff, placating dictators like Vladimir Putin, making sexual comments about a young White House aide, and having a policy of “deny everything.”
Why did Grisham refuse to take part in televised briefings? “I knew that sooner or later the president would want me to tell the public something that was not true or that would make me sound like a lunatic,” she explained.
Grisham described the Trump White House as a madhouse “where everything was like a clown car on fire running at full speed into a warehouse full of fireworks.”
Trump prefers women with supermodel good looks who will jump through hoops for him. Preferably hula hoops.
After serving as Trump's press secretary from July 2019 to April 2020, Grisham served as chief of staff and press secretary to Melania Trump from 2020 to 2021. However, to her credit Grisham resigned on J*** 6, 2021, after a horde of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol building.
Grisham says Trump went out of his way to please and placate Putin, whose cold reception of Trump made him want to impress the Russian despot all the more. Grisham recalled a meeting between the two during the Group of 20 summit in Osaka in 2019: “With all the talk of sanctions against Russia for interfering in the 2016 e******n and for various human rights abuses, Trump told Putin, ‘Okay, I’m going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes. But it’s for the cameras, and after they leave we’ll talk. You understand.’”
Grisham told The View panelists that Trump "really admired Putin and I saw that firsthand." She added, "I think he feared him. I think he was afraid of him. I think the man intimidated him."
Trump became a “useful i***t” to Putin.
Trump made sexual comments about a young press aide whom Grisham says he repeatedly invited up to his Air Force One cabin, including once to “look at her ***” using an expletive to describe her posterior. Trump instructed Grisham to promote the woman and “keep her happy.” Instead, Grisham tried to keep her away from Trump.
During a rant about E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her, Trump first insulted Carroll’s looks. He then gazed into Grisham’s eyes and said something that unnerved her: “You just deny it,” Trump told Grisham emphatically. "That’s what you do in every situation. Right, Stephanie? You just deny it.”
Grisham described Trump calling for her to defend the size and shape of his penis after porn star Stormy Daniels mocked his sex organ as an undersized toadstool during an interview. “Uh, yes sir,” she replied.
According to Grisham, Trump spent a lot of his time in the White House screaming at his employees, especially Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, after the many occasions when Cipollone had to inform Trump that what he wanted to do was unethical or illegal.
Grisham reserved special ire for Jared Kushner, whom she called “Rasputin in a slim-fitting suit.”
Grisham said Melania Trump was "very wary" of Rudy Giuliani meeting her husband in the West Wing, according to testimony regarding J****** 6.
During her May 18 testimony, Grisham told J****** 6 c*******e members Liz Cheney and Pete Aguilar that Melania Trump had “developed a strong distrust for certain individuals around the president at that time.” Melania “didn't trust Mark Meadows, is what she told me," Grisham told the committee. "She was very wary of Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, a lot of the people who were coming up into the residence and talking with the president."
When asked where the distrust of Giuliani and others originated, Grisham said that Melania Trump "felt Trump was letting a lot of people who were maybe harmful to the president and giving him bad advice" into the West Wing or their residence. "Mrs. Trump never liked it when people would tell Trump what he wanted to hear rather than the t***h or the reality of the situation, and she felt that Meadows was always just playing into his hand," Grisham added.
It sounds like Melania Trump had a lot more horse sense than her husband, who was so prone to flattery and apparently came to believe his own press clippings.
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Newsweek that "credibility will be everything" if Trump and others within his inner circle are ultimately prosecuted. "Stephanie Grisham's testimony that Melania Trump didn't trust Rudy Giuliani is telling," Rahmani explained. "The former first lady reportedly believed that Giuliani and others were giving him bad advice and playing into his conspiracy theories." Rahmani added that “It’s bad when your own wife doesn't believe ‘Stop the Steal.’”
How many of Trump’s original White House staff lasted a year, much less four?
“The t***h was that pretty much everyone eventually wore out their welcome with the president,” Grisham wrote. “We were bottles of milk with expiration dates.”
The former press secretary also said, “I should have spoken up more.”
Better late than never.
On January 5, 2022, Grisham testified to the J****** 6th Committee. According to the Guardian, she told the committee that Trump held secret meetings in the White House residence in the weeks before the Capitol attack and that the Secret Service had received a p**********l document reflecting Trump's intentions to march to the Capitol on J****** 6. She testified again on May 18, 2022.
Grisham did not portray Melania Trump in a flattering light: "The Secret Service unofficially dubbed her 'Rapunzel' because she remained in her tower, never descending. In fact, some agents tried to get assigned to her detail because they knew the First Lady’s limited movements and travel meant that they could spend more time at home with their families."
Nor did Grisham think much of Ivanka Trump: “Ivanka was constantly getting into the press shots that truly should have been reserved for the president and first lady. It was yet another example of the Kushners putting themselves on the same level as the first couple, and it was unseemly. For Mrs. Trump, it was about protocol and the rules; or all of us as staff, it was about allowing her to be in her role and have the people of the United States see her representing them with dignity and class… Mrs. Trump seemed relieved to see that I shared her frustrations with her daughter-in-law, so much so that she eventually let me in on the nickname she had privately given her: ‘the Princess.’ Many times after that I would hear one of her favorite stock complaints, ‘Princess always runs to her father.’”
Inappropriate behavior on the part of the Kushners earned the couple their own derisive nickname. “Because they dabbled in a bit of everything and could be precocious and self-absorbed, we in the East Wing dubbed the Kushners ‘the interns,’" Grisham writes. "Mrs. Trump was amused and herself used the nickname every now and then.”
Trump’s hair “when not perfectly coiffed” was “a sight to behold.” How did he cover that immense bald spot? With a “s**t ton of hairspray.”
But Trump’s hair is the least of our worries as the 2024 p**********l e******n nears. Trump’s attacks on women, minorities and minority women continue apace.
Trump insults intelligent women because he feels inferior to them. Trump has called women “pigs,” “dogs” and “d********g animals.”
Trump resorts to r****t name-calling like “Pocahontas” for Elizabeth Warren and “Nimbra” for Nikki Haley because he feels inferior to them. And intellectually, he is.
Trump told Bret Baier of Fox News that such a nickname can be “a very effective tool.” Yes, r****t dog whistles can be very effective with the KKK types, but that doesn’t mean a candidate for president should use them.
Trump was clearly invoking his supporters’ fear of the “other” and the darker-skinned “outsider” when he defended his “Nimbra” nickname for Haley as his take on “her name, wherever she may come from.” Trump’s insinuation is that anyone from a region that produces people with slightly more skin pigment is dirty, dark and dangerous. That was how Hitler and the N**is thought about Jews and Gypsies, resulting in the Holocaust.
SOURCES: Newsweek, The Guardian, Stephanie Grisham’s tell-all book I’ll Take Your Questions Now
#TRUMP #DONTHECON #WARONWOMEN #MRBTRUMP #MRBDONTHECON #MRBWAR #MRBWOMEN #MRBWARONWOMEN # MRBGRISHAM
It sounds like Stephanie Grisham was never an enthusiastic Trump defender. After all, she never held a televised press conference in Don the Con’s defense. But Grisham now admits that she was part of Trump’s deceitful White House apparatus: “Casual dishonesty filtered through the White House as though it were in the air conditioning system.”
The former Trump White House press secretary best known for never holding a televised briefing with reporters, has written a tell-all book 'I’ll Take Your Questions Now', in which she accuses Trump of abusing his White House staff, placating dictators like Vladimir Putin, making sexual comments about a young White House aide, and having a policy of “deny everything.”
Why did Grisham refuse to take part in televised briefings? “I knew that sooner or later the president would want me to tell the public something that was not true or that would make me sound like a lunatic,” she explained.
Grisham described the Trump White House as a madhouse “where everything was like a clown car on fire running at full speed into a warehouse full of fireworks.”
Trump prefers women with supermodel good looks who will jump through hoops for him. Preferably hula hoops.
After serving as Trump's press secretary from July 2019 to April 2020, Grisham served as chief of staff and press secretary to Melania Trump from 2020 to 2021. However, to her credit Grisham resigned on J*** 6, 2021, after a horde of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol building.
Grisham says Trump went out of his way to please and placate Putin, whose cold reception of Trump made him want to impress the Russian despot all the more. Grisham recalled a meeting between the two during the Group of 20 summit in Osaka in 2019: “With all the talk of sanctions against Russia for interfering in the 2016 e******n and for various human rights abuses, Trump told Putin, ‘Okay, I’m going to act a little tougher with you for a few minutes. But it’s for the cameras, and after they leave we’ll talk. You understand.’”
Grisham told The View panelists that Trump "really admired Putin and I saw that firsthand." She added, "I think he feared him. I think he was afraid of him. I think the man intimidated him."
Trump became a “useful i***t” to Putin.
Trump made sexual comments about a young press aide whom Grisham says he repeatedly invited up to his Air Force One cabin, including once to “look at her ***” using an expletive to describe her posterior. Trump instructed Grisham to promote the woman and “keep her happy.” Instead, Grisham tried to keep her away from Trump.
During a rant about E. Jean Carroll, who accused Trump of raping her, Trump first insulted Carroll’s looks. He then gazed into Grisham’s eyes and said something that unnerved her: “You just deny it,” Trump told Grisham emphatically. "That’s what you do in every situation. Right, Stephanie? You just deny it.”
Grisham described Trump calling for her to defend the size and shape of his penis after porn star Stormy Daniels mocked his sex organ as an undersized toadstool during an interview. “Uh, yes sir,” she replied.
According to Grisham, Trump spent a lot of his time in the White House screaming at his employees, especially Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel, after the many occasions when Cipollone had to inform Trump that what he wanted to do was unethical or illegal.
Grisham reserved special ire for Jared Kushner, whom she called “Rasputin in a slim-fitting suit.”
Grisham said Melania Trump was "very wary" of Rudy Giuliani meeting her husband in the West Wing, according to testimony regarding J****** 6.
During her May 18 testimony, Grisham told J****** 6 c*******e members Liz Cheney and Pete Aguilar that Melania Trump had “developed a strong distrust for certain individuals around the president at that time.” Melania “didn't trust Mark Meadows, is what she told me," Grisham told the committee. "She was very wary of Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Jenna Ellis, a lot of the people who were coming up into the residence and talking with the president."
When asked where the distrust of Giuliani and others originated, Grisham said that Melania Trump "felt Trump was letting a lot of people who were maybe harmful to the president and giving him bad advice" into the West Wing or their residence. "Mrs. Trump never liked it when people would tell Trump what he wanted to hear rather than the t***h or the reality of the situation, and she felt that Meadows was always just playing into his hand," Grisham added.
It sounds like Melania Trump had a lot more horse sense than her husband, who was so prone to flattery and apparently came to believe his own press clippings.
Former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani told Newsweek that "credibility will be everything" if Trump and others within his inner circle are ultimately prosecuted. "Stephanie Grisham's testimony that Melania Trump didn't trust Rudy Giuliani is telling," Rahmani explained. "The former first lady reportedly believed that Giuliani and others were giving him bad advice and playing into his conspiracy theories." Rahmani added that “It’s bad when your own wife doesn't believe ‘Stop the Steal.’”
How many of Trump’s original White House staff lasted a year, much less four?
“The t***h was that pretty much everyone eventually wore out their welcome with the president,” Grisham wrote. “We were bottles of milk with expiration dates.”
The former press secretary also said, “I should have spoken up more.”
Better late than never.
On January 5, 2022, Grisham testified to the J****** 6th Committee. According to the Guardian, she told the committee that Trump held secret meetings in the White House residence in the weeks before the Capitol attack and that the Secret Service had received a p**********l document reflecting Trump's intentions to march to the Capitol on J****** 6. She testified again on May 18, 2022.
Grisham did not portray Melania Trump in a flattering light: "The Secret Service unofficially dubbed her 'Rapunzel' because she remained in her tower, never descending. In fact, some agents tried to get assigned to her detail because they knew the First Lady’s limited movements and travel meant that they could spend more time at home with their families."
Nor did Grisham think much of Ivanka Trump: “Ivanka was constantly getting into the press shots that truly should have been reserved for the president and first lady. It was yet another example of the Kushners putting themselves on the same level as the first couple, and it was unseemly. For Mrs. Trump, it was about protocol and the rules; or all of us as staff, it was about allowing her to be in her role and have the people of the United States see her representing them with dignity and class… Mrs. Trump seemed relieved to see that I shared her frustrations with her daughter-in-law, so much so that she eventually let me in on the nickname she had privately given her: ‘the Princess.’ Many times after that I would hear one of her favorite stock complaints, ‘Princess always runs to her father.’”
Inappropriate behavior on the part of the Kushners earned the couple their own derisive nickname. “Because they dabbled in a bit of everything and could be precocious and self-absorbed, we in the East Wing dubbed the Kushners ‘the interns,’" Grisham writes. "Mrs. Trump was amused and herself used the nickname every now and then.”
Trump’s hair “when not perfectly coiffed” was “a sight to behold.” How did he cover that immense bald spot? With a “s**t ton of hairspray.”
But Trump’s hair is the least of our worries as the 2024 p**********l e******n nears. Trump’s attacks on women, minorities and minority women continue apace.
Trump insults intelligent women because he feels inferior to them. Trump has called women “pigs,” “dogs” and “d********g animals.”
Trump resorts to r****t name-calling like “Pocahontas” for Elizabeth Warren and “Nimbra” for Nikki Haley because he feels inferior to them. And intellectually, he is.
Trump told Bret Baier of Fox News that such a nickname can be “a very effective tool.” Yes, r****t dog whistles can be very effective with the KKK types, but that doesn’t mean a candidate for president should use them.
Trump was clearly invoking his supporters’ fear of the “other” and the darker-skinned “outsider” when he defended his “Nimbra” nickname for Haley as his take on “her name, wherever she may come from.” Trump’s insinuation is that anyone from a region that produces people with slightly more skin pigment is dirty, dark and dangerous. That was how Hitler and the N**is thought about Jews and Gypsies, resulting in the Holocaust.
SOURCES: Newsweek, The Guardian, Stephanie Grisham’s tell-all book I’ll Take Your Questions Now
#TRUMP #DONTHECON #WARONWOMEN #MRBTRUMP #MRBDONTHECON #MRBWAR #MRBWOMEN #MRBWARONWOMEN # MRBGRISHAM
Jan 28, 2024 15:28:27 #
slatten49 wrote:
by Michael R. Burch br br It sounds like Stephani... (show quote)
Yet another gossip book. The woman sees an opportunity for $$$. I have no respect for people with such low character no matter who the book is about - Trump, Biden, Bush, Clinton or anyone else.
Jan 28, 2024 15:40:32 #
Rose42 wrote:
Yet another gossip book. The woman sees an opportunity for $$$. I have no respect for people with such low character no matter who the book is about - Trump, Biden, Bush, Clinton or anyone else.
She waits until the e******n year to bring out the book. I wonder who is backing her.
Jan 28, 2024 15:45:28 #
proud republican
Loc: RED CALIFORNIA
slatten49 wrote:
by Michael R. Burch br br It sounds like Stephani... (show quote)
Grisham is another bimbo who was fired and now she lashes out on her old boss... I have absolutely NO respect OR patience with i***ts like her!!...Let's see how many people will turn on biden after he'll be fired in November...
Jan 29, 2024 06:13:35 #
slatten49
Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
proud republican wrote:
Grisham is another bimbo who was fired and now she lashes out on her old boss... I have absolutely NO respect OR patience with i***ts like her!!...Let's see how many people will turn on biden after he'll be fired in November...
Grisham wasn't fired. Instead, she quit/resigned in disgust after the J****** 6th debacle.https://www.google.com/search?q=whystephaniegrishamquitthewhitehouse&rlz=1C1VDKB_enUS1017US1017&oq=whystephani&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAEEUYOzIGCAAQRRg7MgYIARBFGDkyCQgCEAAYDRiABDIJCAMQABgNGIAEMgkIBBAAGA0YgAQyCQgFEAAYDRiABDIJCAYQABgNGIAEMggIBxAAGA0YHjIMCAgQABgIGA0YDxgeMg0ICRAAGIYDGIAEGIoF0gEJMTA3MDBqMGo0qAIAsAIA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Jan 29, 2024 06:40:27 #
slatten49
Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
Liberty Tree wrote:
She waits until the e******n year to bring out the book. I wonder who is backing her.
Ms. Grisham is backed by her first-hand experiences. The following speaks to why former aides speak out...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/it-s-now-or-never-ex-trump-aides-weighing-speaking-n1241183
A number of Trump's "best people" who, in lieu of his disastrous administration, have since soured on him...
https://news.yahoo.com/the-growing-list-of-people-donald-trump-hired-who-eventually-soured-on-him-171720536.html
Excerpt from the last link:
It's well-known that many of the people who were willing to go to work for the former president have since revised their opinion of him. Trump's four years in the White House saw the highest turnover rate of any administration in U.S. history, and many of those who moved on appear to have left with a bitter taste in their mouth."
Jan 29, 2024 11:17:32 #
slatten49 wrote:
by Michael R. Burch br br It sounds like Stephani... (show quote)
LOL,,, love the post.. gotta get the book..
Jan 29, 2024 11:32:26 #
slatten49
Loc: Lake Whitney, Texas
permafrost wrote:
LOL,,, love the post.. gotta get the book..
It provides an insider's overall assessment of the Trump White House circus and ringmaster.
Jan 29, 2024 11:56:17 #
slatten49 wrote:
It provides an insider's overall assessment of the Trump White House circus and ringmaster.
'Looking forward to it...
Jan 29, 2024 15:30:36 #
LostAggie66
Loc: Corpus Christi, TX (Shire of Seawinds)
permafrost wrote:
LOL,,, love the post.. gotta get the book..
Me too will check the library catalog on line and get in line to check it out.
Jan 29, 2024 17:27:30 #
LostAggie66 wrote:
Me too will check the library catalog on line and get in line to check it out.
Jan 30, 2024 13:35:54 #
permafrost wrote:
'Looking forward to it...
Why would you buy it? Seriously. Its not like you’re on the fence about v****g for him or need more info about him.
Jan 30, 2024 17:56:33 #
Rose42 wrote:
Why would you buy it? Seriously. Its not like you’re on the fence about v****g for him or need more info about him.
You are correct rose.. no, I will not buy it... the library will loan it out in due time.. I can wait..
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